Clod-fender.



No. 695,000. Patented Mar. H, 1902.

E. a. SHAMBA UGH.

CLOD FENDER.

(Application med Aug. 12, 1901.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIAS n. 'SHAMBAUGH, or ROWN TOWNSHIP, INDIANA.

CLOD-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,000, dated March 11, 1902. Application filed August 12,1901. Serial in. 71.681- no m d mTo aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LELIAS B. SHAMBAUGH, a citizen of the United States,residingin Brown township, in the county of Hendricks and State ofIndiana, have invented a new and useful Glod-Fender, of which thefollowing isa specification.

My invention relates to an improvementin the clod-fenders for eitherwalking orriding cultivators. 7

The object of my invention is to provide means within easy access of theoperator by which the clod-fenders may be readily adj usted toward andfrom the ground inorder to accommodate them to the character of the cropover which the machine is passing.

The accompanying drawing, which is a perspective view, illustrates myinvention as ap plied to a riding-"cultivator.

The drawingis a perspective view re presenting my invention applied to ahammock-cultivator.

In the drawing, 1 1 indicate a pair of clodfenders which may be of theusual form, each of said fenders being pivoted at2 to the frame of themachine.

Pivoted or otherwise movably mounted upon the frame of the machine is alever or handle 3, which in the present case is shown pivot-ed upon thearch of the axle 4. Lever 3 is provided with a suitable spring-catch 5,which cooperates with a stationary segment 6. Connected to the short arm7 of lever 3 are two links 8 8, each of which extends downward and ispivoted at its lower end to one of the clod-fenders 1, the arrangementbeing such that by swinging lever 3 the rear end of the fenders may besimultaneously raised from or forced toward the ground.

In operation the driver may by swinging the lever 3 readily adjust thefenders to suit the height of the drop over which the machine is at; anymoment passing, the said fenders being thrown closer to the ground whenthe crop is low and farther away from'the ground when the crop standshigher. In most fields, especially of corn, there are always spots wherethe corn is much lower than in-the general field, and if the fenders beset properly .for the cultivation of the high corn the low corn isdamaged by the clodsr By the use of my device, however, the fenders arecontinually under control'of the driver and may be adjusted to suit anycondition of crop.

It will be readily understood that many 'changes in the particular meansfor rendering the fenders readily adjustable may be produced withoutdeparting from the spirit of my invention.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination with a cultivator having apair of plows, of a pair of clod-fenders each movably mounted upon thecultivator and adjacent the plows, and means within easy reach of theoperator for simultaneously adjusting said fenders toward and from theground independently of the plows.

2. The combination with a cultivator hav ing a pair of plows, of a pairof (sled-fenders movably mounted thereon each adjacent a plow, a leveralso mounted on the cultivator, a cross-bar carried by said lever, apair of links both connected to said cross-bar and each connected to afender, and means for holding said lever in adjusted positions.

ELIAS B. SHAMBAUGH.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR M. Hoop, BERTHA M. BALLARD.

